Mr. President, last week, President Biden gave what many consider to be his farewell address. Americans are eager to say ``farewell'' and, in many ways, ``good riddance'' to Joe Biden and the policies that he has wrought, along with Democrats, upon our country. It has been a record of ruin. When Americans look at the state of our Nation today, they don't like what they see. Three out of four Americans will tell you that the country is heading in the wrong direction. Prices are 20 percent higher than they were when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came into office. People are forced to cut back, forced to decide whether they can fill their gas tanks or their grocery carts. According to CNN, nearly 40 percent of all Americans say they worry that they can't pay their bills. So how did we get here? Well, Democrats passed trillions of dollars in reckless, radical, and runaway spending. It was so unpopular as a proposal--and Congress heard from the American people as to how unpopular it was--it was so unpopular that, at a point, it was tied--the vote--and then they had to bring in someone to break the tie. Who was that person who cast that tie-breaking vote that brought us 40-year-high inflation and the highest prices in 40 years for which so many people suffer today? That person was Vice President Kamala Harris. That is right, Vice President Harris, who is now the nominee of the Democratic Party, running for President.…
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